Philosophy Purity Test


Check all boxes for which your answer is "yes".
Then click the left button to be evaluated by online ethicists.

    Have you ever
  1. had lunch with a philosophy faculty member?
  2. had lunch with a philosophy faculty member past 1 PM?
  3. had a lunch with a philosophy faculty member that led to heated debate?
  4. debated a stranger?
  5. engaged in debate with 2 or more people in the same day?
  6. at the same time?
  7. read On Human Bondage?
  8. highlighted the good parts?
  9. scribbled notes in the margin?
  10. used ideas from the book in class?
  11. read up on Objectivism just for the steamy parts?
  12. engaged in a 2 person prisoner's dilemma game?
  13. engaged in a multi-person prisoner's dilemma game?
  14. betrayed your partner in a prisoner's dilemma game?
  15. attended a guest lecture?
  16. attended 2 or more guest lectures in a 24 hour period?
  17. attended guest lectures on a regular basis (at least once a month)?
  18. given in to skepticism?
  19. begged for Moore?
  20. espoused fallibilism?
  21. mastered the Sheffer stroke?
  22. been guilty of vagueness?
  23. pondered the problem of evil?
  24. read ancient philosophy in a non-Platonic manner?
  25. pulled an all-nighter on a term paper?
  26. finished more than 1 term paper in a night, with none of your professors aware of it?
  27. finished more than 1 term paper in a night, with 1 or more professors aware of it?
  28. been under the influence of a Cartesian demon?
  29. used dirty words like "m*st*c," "b*h*v**rist," or (gasp) "d**list"?
  30. participated in a Hobbesian state of nature?
  31. submitted your authority to the will of a sovereign?
  32. used the Dominance Principle?
  33. had it backfire (as in a commons game)?
  34. experienced qualia?
  35. faked qualia?
  36. exposed a fallacy?
  37. examined your hard data?
  38. been weak-willed?
  39. been (sorry, Steffen) self-deceived?
  40. read the final chapter of Benardete's Metaphysics?
  41. Used it?
  42. And one last question: have you, anywhere on this test, asserted anything that is false on the correspondence theory of truth?

Now comes the moment of truth!